"I've had far more success than I ever expected. But I do think that a lot of successful artists have an aim to be successful, even if they don't outwardly sound like it. I never really expected success."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Jim Shaw

#Successful Quotes #Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating”
“A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.”
“You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found that out in your life. And then suddenly when you let go of resistance you let go of an attachment to something: I need this to happen in order to be happy; I don't want what is, I want something else. To be okay with what is, which is the simplicity of this moment, is the beginning of true change.”
“Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that Iâ€™d never been inside a smile before. Whoâ€™d have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once”

Source : Ali Smith (2007). “Girl Meets Boy”, p.102, Canongate Books
“Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.”
“When I started writing the script I thought that maybe someone else would direct it, but then I started to fall for it so much that I left the other project and I put all my time on The German Doctor.”
“Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.”
“Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.”

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